MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 41-41-113. Withdrawal of life-sustaining mechanisms.

A declaration executed and filed in the manner required by sections 41-41-101 et seq. shall be honored when the declarant suffers a terminal physical condition causing severe distress or unconsciousness and the declarant's physician and two (2) other physicians concur that there is no expectation that the declarant will regain consciousness or a state of health that is meaningful to the declarant and that but for the use of life-sustaining mechanisms the declarant would immediately die.

SOURCES: Laws, 1984, ch. 365, Sec. 7, eff from and after July 1, 1984.


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